will i am's delayed diary

Patrick & Nicea's Wedding I , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. 2011 is really the year to get married. Had to attend another wedding on Saturday. The matrimony mass was scheduled at 9:30am, so we gave marketing a miss. The previous two I attended were only a half masses because both of the brides were not Catholics. So the last wedding of the year ended quite nicely with a full mass as both were Catholics. Everything was quite standard really. Flowers, relatives, bla bla bla. But it was interesting to note that the bride kinda had a perpetual look of surprise on her face and her mum on the other hand looked glum. And the worst of all was sitting in front of her boisterous band of bridesmaids. Had no decency to shut up at all during the proceedings. While the priest did his thang up front, they were busy firing the mouths off in machine gun style yakking. By the time Gospel was read, my mum couldn't stand it any longer and shushed them. After the bouquet was thrown ( wh

Fish Form , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Sunday was like all the past weeks with the exception that a newly-ordained priest had been appointed as the assistant parish priest. Funny to note that the parist priest, in-coming assistant and out-going assistant all share the same surname. And all of them have a receeding hairline. The new priest celebrated his virgin mass that day and glad to say that there were no obvious hiccups. Mum suggested that we go shopping at IKEA, so I decided to eat lunch at Soon Soon Pan Mee and Fish Head Noodles , Damansara Perdana, a favourite of Lifebook. I suspect he is a shareholder there. Ate fish paste and fish head noodles. Quite expensive really and the portions weren't fantastic. But I must say that the fish paste was quite good. The fish head was quite disappointing actually. One can taste better at Woo Pin or the coffee shop at Jalan Tun Mohd Fuad 2, TTDI. From there, I turned into The Curve with relative ease. Later learned that the usu

Mel celebrated her 30th birthday ( welcome to Club30! ) on the 25th of November, but we only managed to meet up last Friday due to scheduling problems. I got off work a bit early and went to Bumbu Bali , Bandar Puteri Puchong with SK. Thought we could start a bit earlier, but Mel's baby Cameron made #2 in the baby seat after she broke a sweat dressing him up. So she had to repeat the whole cycle. A mother of an infant rarely gets things easy. While waiting, SK and I chilled in the restaurant with a jug of barley lime and a plate of sate lilit . That dish was quite a disappointment really. Giant lemongrass stalks were used, and as a result, the meat that was wrapped around it was just measly layer. Some time before 8:00pm, Mel finally arrived in a nice black number and with Cameron in tow. Her cute one-toothed Singh looked cute in his tiny buttoned shirt. Mel looked the part of the urban mother with her large, orange baby bag in one hand, and her Sembonia handbag in the other. Af

Pork, Prawns, Fish , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Sunday was the usual routine with the exception that I dropped mum at a friend's place to help with cooking. On the other hand, I headed to the hardware store to get some padlocks for my apartment. When I got home, I barely rested for five minutes before heading out to SK's place. Went there to bum off her UNIFI to download "Orcs Must Die" from Steam . As a Thanksgiving gift, my brother gifted me that together with "The Witcher: Enhanced Edition". Yet to download the latter though. Haven't found the time to game proper. Just spent three minutes looking at the instructions and controls. Also met CK for a while before he headed home after lunch. He was in a dilemma over whether to leave the civil service. Kinda sad that he is naive enough to think that that government will send him for postgraduate studies overseas. Wishful thinking. At about six, we went out to Seri Petaling. By that time, the coo

Here's a picture of the new RapidKL LRT gate. As a new user, where would you choose to touch your token / Touch n' Go card / myRapid card? Position (A) or (B)? If you chose (B), you would be one of the many users who get stuck at the gate wondering why the gate isn't letting them through. Every day, people try again and again at the location, wondering why the gate gives out a funny noise. Perhaps we are too used to web pages, where "click here" literally means CLICK HERE . LOL. If you answered (A), good for you. You and RapidKL think alike. But I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. So, are you an (A) or a (B)? Or let me rephrase it, would you touch Top or Bottom? :)

Rack o' Ribs , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Woke up early on Saturday morning only to be greeted by a ladder and rag. Mum suddenly had an attack of spring cleaning and wanted me to clean the fans and windows. Guess it's good to reduce the levels of dust in my room. I'm sneezing less now. Nothing works up an appetite more than manual labour. Some time mid-morning, I went out for a bowl of fish paste noodles. Also stopped by the neighbourhood bakery to get some bread for mum. Saw how the pastry chef worked. Lovely long locks and a hair band with no hair net. I'd be no surprise to find his tresses in the finished products. Rushed home to shower as we had to attend a wedding mass at 11:30am. LDP was a tad jammed, nut luckily we made it on time. SK attended the ceremony while wearing a soft neck brace ( she was involved in a car accident ). I still think she should have accessorized it with a brooch or wrapped a faux fur stole around it. :P. One of the biggest turn out

Prime01 , swiped from zylean on Flickr. With barely days left on the 'borrowed' Starwood Privilege card, we hopped from Favola to Prime Steak Restaurant . Prime's predominatly a carnivore's heaven on earth. Beef, beef and more beef with little to offer in terms of other things. Seeing that a side of vegetables costs MYR30 there, we decided to forgo that and order scallops from the starters instead-- Seared Sea Scallops. Truth be told, I found the scallops in Favola much sweeter. Kinda tasted bland in the middle. Surprised to see it come with a poaced egg and parmesan potato salad in the middle of the platter. I liked the potato, just the right level of creaminess. For mains, we ordered the Blackmore Wagyu D Rump ( 220gms of award-winning meat with a marbling score of 9+ ) and Master Kobe oyster blade steak ( another 220gms of luxury Wagyu ). Both done medium. A trio of sauces were chosen, served in cute, mini saucepans-- wild mushroom, truffle and Argentinian chimichu

Chinese traditional wedding , swiped from 小抖 ♬♫♪♩Kido on Flickr. Unlike SK, I rarely have super-vivid dreams. None of those Hollywood movie plots and IMAX theater effects. But the other day, I think I finally got a blockbuster playing during my REM sleep. Well, not an action movie, more of a romantic comedy? Something every little girl dreams of... getting married. I actually dreamt that I was goonna marry KH. Quite traditional really. The bride went to the groom's place. Not in a palanquin with a band of musicians, but actually a VIP bus with me, SK and one other wispy person inside. After arriving at KH's condo, I went up to his place. Upon arrival, the front door was open and all his relatives were standing around. The standard sam ku luk po . All of them were whispering to each other. Can't blame them, how often does one see a gay marriage in Malaysia? But perhaps it was also due to the fact that I was only dressed in a muscle T and a pair of shorts for my own weddi

Last Sunday morning, I woke up at 7:00am with a dull ache in my tummy. The pain prompted me to slip out of my Spongebon Squarepants trunks and sit on the porcelain throne. As expected, it was the runs. Didn't quite feel better after that first purge, but I went back to bed anyway. An hour later, I was awakened by the pain again. Went another round and this time I could distinctively feel some cramping in my abdominal region. Normally I would feel better after expelling the toxins, but this time, it was different. Even a generous rub of RuYi oil did not help. At about 9:00pm, I told my mum that I wasn't up for church. She suggested I see the doctor. So I pulled up a pair nylon shorts and went with my under shirt on. By that time, I was already nauseous. The doctor was a typical young, nerdy fellow with a karipap hairstyle. When he wanted to take my temperature, he said, "Sorry". Same when he asked me to pull up my shirt, he said, "Sorry". When he asked me

yellow rope with knot , swiped from limonada on Flickr. For two days I was sent off for training at Centerpoint, Bandar Utama. The topic was Microsoft's colud computing technology, Azure. Basically hands-on tutorials and a whole lot of marketing talk. Very hyped. Plenty of freebies. Turned into a bloody game show. And food was provided-- breakfast, lunch and tea. Not bad huh? On the last day, I arranged a meet-up with Pluboy since I was so near his workplace. We met up at Starbucks and he was nice enough to buy me a black tea latte. According to him, we had not met for three years. Didn't seem like that long to me. Kinda about the time when he and Jase went separate ways. To me, he still looked pretty much the same. Talked about everything under the sun. Practically a clarification session for most of the major items I read on his FB wall. It was to keep a conversation going for three hours when one has not met for more than a thousand days. LOL. Not breaking a stride in my lo

Shark Fin Soup Sucks , swiped from PassionStitch@gmail.com on Flickr. Here's an excerpt from an FB wall regarding sharks fin activism at its best. I enjoyed taking part. Happy reading! VegeBoy shark fin melon soup ready in another 40 minutes. I am sure it will turn out great! Like · · Unfollow Post · Yesterday at 8:25pm · Mr. J likes this. williamnyk For some reason, sharkfin melon makes me feel nauseous. It has since been banned from my dinner table. Prefer the common melon. Yesterday at 8:32pm · Like Activist1 Stop killing sharks!! Yesterday at 8:34pm · Like · 1 VegeBoy haha, never heard people get allergy of that. I love it, it's sweeter for my liking. :) Yesterday at 8:34pm · Like VegeBoy ‎ Activist1 I hope you are joking....... Yesterday at 8:34pm · Like Activist1 I am not. Yesterday at 8:35pm · Like VegeBoy have you finished reading my sentence carefully then? Yesterday at 8:35pm · Like Activist1 Not I haven't. Got so angry with p

Work in Progress , swiped from Kevan on Flickr. "Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong" -- Sounds cynical? Pessimistic? Unfortunately it's kinda true. Renovations have started on my apartment and the problems had been many. Luckily I had SK to help me out! She's a life saver! First of all, the wiring in my living room was shot! The renovator wanted to charge me for fixing it, but SK talked him out of it. Amazing. She had introduced was too many customers to him to be easily ignored. Haha. Then three out of five of the Panasonic ceiling fans that were installed did not work. Have to wait for the Panasonic technician to visit. Ugh. There was some issue regarding the lights in the rooms. Seems that putting them on the ceiling would cast shadows as the fan spun due to the close proximity. So they put it on the walls instead. In addition to that, two of the three down lights had faulty bulbs. Ack. And now I have to replace the front door's knob. I tried to enter

Been getting a lot of hits lately regarding male GV actors, so I decided to do a little tribute to several of my regulars from Coat West, one of the more prominent GV production houses in Japan. The following excerpts were translated from "Mens Egg" magazine in 2009 ( ? ). Swiped it off ssusita 's blog post. Some of it doesn't make sense, but we're used to that. LOL. I've seen Nagi in many vids. He's not exactly my favourite, but I think he was pretty popular. From what I saw, he was usually the bottom. Nearly reed thin with long-ish hair, the perfect example of the Japanese dandy mixed with boy next door looks. From my impression, he's usually paired with Sho and Kazuki. Nagi Name : Komato Hashimoto (NEW) Ex-band member of ALMAZ (NEW) Additional information (in Chinese) :  https://baike.baidu.com/item/NAGI Nickname: Grandpa, Princess Margaret (as long is too beautiful) Age: April 2, 1984 Height: 180cm Weight: 60kg Place of Birth

Mr. Wonderland 2011 , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Every year end, mum and I like to go around looking at the Christmas decorations in malls. Last Sunday, we ventured out to The Pavillion after early mass to see if it lived up to expectation. Arrived there at 10:40am, but we immediately walked out to Fahrenheit 88 to have brunch. Was already starving because we did not eat anything before mass. Wanted to try Marutama Ramen because according to KH, it's a famous chain from Japan. We were a tad too early and had to wait about fifteen minutes for them to open shop. In the mean time, we just walked around a bit. Noticed that Santa's sleigh and his reindeers from The Pavillion were recycled and moved to Fahrenheit 88. Nothing goes to waste. Told the cute waiter that I wanted the ramen in chicken broth with pork belly, charsiu and seasoned egg ( perfectly done! ). A little bit of everything. With nothing much of interest at Fahrenheit 88, we walked back to The Pavillion after

renovation , swiped from Luciphoto on Flickr. On Friday night, horniness took the better of me and I kinda skanked past my bedtime. As a result, I only woke up at 8:45am, too late for the usual marketing. Fortunately, mum does buy groceries during weekdays so it wasn't critical to go to the OUG wet market. With Cyan in tow, we just went out for breakfast at Seri Petaling wet market. Ate a hearty bowl of fish paste noodles. The stalls were still open, so we went around a bit. Mum just bought fruits because the stalls there sold stuff at a more expensive price. At 1:00pm, I went to SK's apartment to meet the renovator. Needed to discuss the scope of work and iron out the details. Basically, I would be doing the following: Install grill Install air conditioner at the living room (35' of tubing) Install fan and lights Wiring for fan and light switches and extra power sockets Plaster ceiling for walkway to cover ugly air conditioner tubing Put up curtain rods Total damage is MY

Venetian Masks , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Being ever resourceful, SK managed to commandeer at Starwood Privilege Card from a friend. The card entitles the holder to 50% off all food items in restaurants that belong to Le Meridien, Westin and Sheraton. So on Friday, SK and I decided to have lunch at Favola , Le Meridien, just a stone's throw from my workplace. The restaurant is located on the eight floor and the interior decoration was kinda nice. I was particularly drawn to whole lot of Venetian masks on the walls. The chairs were tall and comfy and the ceiling looked like the banquet halls of old. The menus were rolled up pieces of thick paper fastened by mini leather belts. In the end, we ordered a couple of chef's recommendations~ Risotto con Cappesante ( with pan-seared XL scallops! ), Conchiglioni Marinara al Cortoccio ( baked in a paper parcel with seafood and Parmesan cheese ) and closed with a Illy Coffee-inspired Tiramisu that was large enough for three ( I c

She asked me to relax. Was told that I would feel some pain. She poked me. It wasn't bad. Stopped a while. And moved around a bit. She asked me to change positions. The angle was wrong it seemed. My poor hands. The doctor was only able to draw blood from my left hand. Hi guys and gals, this is a follow-up post from my cholesterol shocker the other day. Was very touched that many people were concerned with my health. I did go to see a GP to get some advice on the situation. As expected, the doctor did not trust the results from the pharmacy and ordered for another test. In two days, the nurse called and asked me to see the doctor again. It was confirmed, I have high cholesterol levels. The total cholesterol was a bit lower, but the LDL was still at an ugly level. I was given a piece of paper from the American Heart Association detailing the cholesterol levels of common foods items. And she told me to exercise and come back for check-up in three months. That was

Blackwell's parcel , swiped from ark on Flickr. Went to the Poslaju Center at Brickfields to courier some legal documents to my brother to sign. Yes, the lawyer firm finally drew up the documents for the perfection of charge after months and months. Months ago: "Fail tu... dah lama kan... emmm... bukan saya in charge la..." "Err... saya belum buat la. Sekarang saya kerja kat reception. Nanti la bulan depan saya call you semula..." Pening right? So, I passed the heavy envelope to the woman at the Poslaju counter. Moi: Ke Singapura. Poslaju: RM30. Moi: Er... lekat macam tu je? Tak letak dalam plastik ke? Poslaju: Plastik tu takde stok. Moi: Tak koyak ke nanti sampul tu? Poslaju: Emmm... Insyallah tak koyak. Moi: (ARGGHHH) Bagi saya celotape tu, saya nak tampal-tampal sikit. So is it an act of God if my package actually arrives at the destination?

Assam Fish , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Brisk business for my sister and BIL this year has them working round the clock, seven days a week. As a result, little Cyan is still sleeping over at my place. So on Sunday, he followed us out to church. The kid was well-behaved that day. He just moved around a lot, at least he did not make noise or speak loudly. Halfway through mass, he whacked half a blueberry bun and that kinda spoiled his appetite for lunch. Couldn't even coax him to eat more of his favourite nasi lemak at Heritage Village Cafe . The rice was quite standard. I should let my brother try it the next he is back. In addition to this, mum and I shared a set of steamed rice with assam fish ( it was sitting in a mixture of oil and vinegar, but really tasty, they used threadfin, really worth the price ), jiu hu char and lobak . After lunch, I went back to the hair products shop at Taman Megah to have the stylist look at my scalp. For some unknown reason, my scalp has

CARS Chase Chick Hicks with piston cup , swiped from jadafiend on Flickr. Here's how little Cyan sings the national anthem: "Negaraku, rumah tumpahnya darahku..." I have failed in my many attempts to correct him. LOL. From what I can tell, he sings Bahasa Melayu songs phonetically. Sometimes he combines several words together and mumble them out ala Jay Chou. But at least he sings "Rasa Sayang" very well. Cyan learned it in conjunction with his pre-school sports day. He proudly brought home a silver trophy ( a kiddy telematch ) which he affectionately calls the "Piston Cup". Watched too much "Cars" apparently. So cute, right?

Desktop Blood Test , swiped from juhansonin on Flickr. In 2010, I did a yearly blood test at Pathlab and found that my total cholesterol had shot up from borderline high to 7.00 MMOL/L. The recommended range is for it to be lower than 5.20! From then on, I started taking rolled oats every morning and even tried plant sterols that supposedly compete with cholesterol absorption in the bloodstream. I was already very conscious about my diet ( no chicken skin and lard ) and mum never did believe in fried and oily foods. So, during my morning marketing, I took a simple test at the pharmacy. The results from the handheld device didn't show any improvement. According to it, my LDL had shot up to 5.15 from 4.80! The only good news was that my HDL was slightly higher at 1.56 and my triglycerides dropped from 1.40 to 0.75. The Total Cholesterol / HDL ratio was also slightly better at 4.50. KH consoled me by saying that at least things did not get worse. But truthfully, I expected to see

During a What's App conversation, Nicky05 let loose that Bear was hospitalized for lung collapse! Sounded really serious so I SMS-ed Pikey for further details. Turns out that Bear was having bad health over the past month and he suddenly encountered breathing difficulties. With one day of holiday left, might as well make good use of it by visiting the poor Bear at Selayang Hospital. Reached there at about noon with little hassle on the road. Selayang Hospital is quite large with elevators ( full of anti-Anwar Ibrahim graffiti ) that wait for no one. And it has a peculiar fountain outside that practically sprays water on to the ground. I guess it doubles as a sprinkler. And the men's room had plenty of propositions for gay sex. The wards were quite large. As we walked in, saw pharmacists preparing medication for the wards. They looked VERY young. Form 3?! The medical assistants seemed gentle and patient, surpassing the standards at some private hospitals I had seen. By the ti

The angry preacher ! , swiped from Gísli Dúa on Flickr. Last week's mass was quite interesting. Perhaps the Raya Haji holiday had threw a spannar in the gears. The hymns were wrong. The projectionist did not sync with the choir. The pianist could have very well been drunk. Amazingly, the priest did not have a cow. However, he did sound about something else. He was kinda pissed with the fact that every week, they fish out rubbish from the mass collection. Some parishioners or guests see fit to throw used tissues, money that is not of legal tender and receipts into the collection bag. Having worked with the hospitality ministry for so long, I had never noticed people dropping in anything other than money. I was quite shocked. Secondly, he complained about certain church-goers who park indiscrimanately just because their cars are more luxurious than others. Arguments often break out and tempers flare. Makes one wonder if "Love Thy Neighbour" flies out the window the second

Lab 101 , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Deviating from the norm, I did not go marketing last Saturday as mum had a breakfast gathering with her friends. I slept in instead and followed SK to work at about 9:00am. She had a job order to produce six facial care products, so she offered me to tag along and see how it was done. before starting work, we had breakfast at Damansara Uptown. Restoran Bintang served up quite a decent plate of Hakka noodles. In just under two hours she whipped up a batch of the products with some leftovers to spare for our own use. Breezed through the whole process while briefly explaining what she was dosing into the beaker. There was a reason for each ingredient and for everything she did there was a trick to balance things out. After dumping everything in ala Chef Wan while making his rendang ( everything was agak-agak ), she would run the homogenizer. As the assistant, I would be fetching her glassware, filling water and cleaning up. Quite interesting

Lavazza , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Lifebook gave us a heads up that Bata was having a warehouse sale at Viva Home, so we fired up the GPS and headed there in the morning. Believe it or not, Bata put up a giant billboard on the pedestrian bridge across Jalan Loke Yew just to promote the event. Everything was priced at MYR5 and MYR10. The shoes were new and all sizes were available. Never seen a more sincere and genuine warehouse sale in my life. Mum and SK bought more than ten pairs in total. Truly cheap. Even saw an imitation of the Betula that I was wearing. Ish. For lunch, we walked in Lavazza Cafe . The decor was quite unique with retro floral chairs at one end and Mad Hatter high-backed style in another. I ordered the Hawaiian-style pasta ( imagine a carbonara with coconut milk ) with roasted chicken and SK ordered the beef burger. The burger patty was impressive. I liked the taste and the texture. Left soon after lunch and headed on home. However, I took a wrong turn and

Art Expo Malaysia 2011 I , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Received a notification from SK that POD was in town on Thursday to attend Art Expo Malaysia 2011 at the MATRADE Building near Jalan Duta. He had VIP tickets so he asked us to tag along to the event. It was the official launching before it was open to the public, so we got the chance to rub shoulders with the who's who of the art scene. Sad right? That sentence actually fails to impress even myself because I don't even who is who in the art scene. LOL. The royal patrons was the royalty from Perlis and when the VIPs arrived, I did not recognize any of them. We thought they would be checking tickets, but apparently not. Just waltzed right in. By the time we arrived, POD had just came in by taxi from LCCT. Collected the one inch thick guide book from the information counter and proceeded to browse the art. Although the guide book listed a whole list of participating countries, I felt that the bulk of the booths were fr

SK needed to change her watch's battery, so I walked into a shop in OUG and found this cutie. Tall, fair, spiky hair and a nice build. This was my third attempt. Not too flattering an angle, methinks. Too bad I screwed up two chances to get his side profile. Maybe next time. Took him very little time to change the battery. I reluctantly paid the MYR12 and peeled my eyes away. I showed this photo to WZ and he actually managed to tell me where he was from! Seems that he had stalked this cutie long before me!

Food Street , swiped from williamnyk on Flickr. Travelled to Teluk Intan again for two reasons. One was for All Soul's Day ( decided to do it early to avoid any Raya Haji madness ) and the other was to settle some of mum's legal issues. Don't worry, not litigation, but conveyancing. In order to kill two birds with one stone, had take a day off and depart on a Friday. Woke up 4:30am that day to get ready. Goodness. However, my BIL did not turn up until 6:30am. Didn't really matter since we made good time on the road and arrived in town at about 9:00am. Had to switch drivers halfway after BIL realized that he did not bring his wallet! Luckily I managed to catch some forty winks during the early part of the journey. First things first, we went to the market for some breakfast. Some turf wars were going on between the hawker stalls so we split into two tables. BIL, sis and bro had yellow sticky rice, nasi lemak and economy fried noodles while mum and I went for curry nood